Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is a strong feeling among our faculty," says Poole, "that scientific advances have been so rapid in the past 20 years that people are confused. They don't know how these advances apply to them, or what they mean." To show what they mean, Poole uses a bag of tricks and props, from jars of Puffed Wheat (to demonstrate how electrons act), to a line of cocked mousetraps (to demonstrate a chain reaction...
...groceries for their lunch, said: "Mr. John, I want to tell you what happened to me at the checkout counter." Mr. John raised his arm defensively. "Margaret," he said, "don't tell me you were shortchanged! I'll cry." She had not been cheated, but a bag of pecans was so poorly marked that the checker had to look up the price. John examined the bag and allowed he would have to jog someone about those markings...
...bag of gold...
None of the northern drives faced serious opposition. The Communists fought, fled or surrendered by detachments without overall plan or direction; in one 24-hour period U.N. forces captured 26,000 prisoners, bringing their total bag to more than...
After that, Dr. Cohn showed how the blood goes through a maze of tubes and a series of whirling cylinders. In a plastic bag lined with a gummy substance, the red cells settle to the bottom. Thus separated, said Dr. Cohn, they can be kept for at least a year (whereas by older methods they were good for less than a month...